JOSEPH CAMPBELL: If you follow
your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the
while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you
are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are
enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time. When you can see
that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open
doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open
where you didn't know they were going to be.
Bliss is an innate state of inner joy. It is a state of unity, transcendence, completeness, knowingness, wholeness, and uplifted consciousness; it is a feeling of oneness and connection with all of creation. Bliss is where happiness, meaning, and truth converge. Everything boils down to our pursuit of bliss. Bliss is found in every religion but does not require a specific religion in order to know it. Bliss is like white light. The Bliss Experiment
Follow your bliss. Find
where it is, and don't be afraid to follow it. Joseph Campbell
Now, I came to this idea of bliss because in Sanskrit, which is the great spiritual language of the world, there are three terms that represent the brink, the jumping-off place to the ocean of transcendence: sat-chit-ananda. The word "Sat" means being. "Chit" means consciousness. "Ananda" means bliss or rapture. I thought, "I don't know whether my consciousness is proper consciousness or not; I don't know whether what I know of my being is my proper being or not; but I do know where my rapture is. So let me hang on to rapture, and that will bring me both my consciousness and my being." I think it worked. -- Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth, pp. 113, 120
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